2 Chronicles 3:8

_AND HE MADE THE MOST HOLY HOUSE, THE LENGTH WHEREOF WAS ACCORDING TO THE BREADTH OF THE HOUSE, TWENTY CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF TWENTY CUBITS: AND HE OVERLAID IT WITH FINE GOLD, AMOUNTING TO SIX HUNDRED TALENTS._ The most holy house. It was a perfect cube (cf. 1 Kings 6:20). OVERLAID IT WITH ... GOLD, AMOUNTING TO SIX HUNDRED TALENTS - at 4 British pounds per oz., equal 3,600,000 pounds sterling....

THE MOST HOLY HOUSE - i. e., the sanctuary, or holy of holies. On the probable value of the gold, see 1 Kings 10:14 note....

EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 3:1 MOUNT MORIAH. This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2, in which latter reference it is alluded to as "the _land _of Moriah," and "one of the mountains" in it is spoken of. Whether the name designates the same place in each instance is more than doubtful. In the present passage the connection of the place with David is marked. Had it been the spot connected with Abraham and the proposed sacrifice of Isaac, it is at least probable that this also would have been emphasized, and not here only, but in 2 Samuel 24:17-10 and...

2 Chronicles 3:1....

CHAPTER 3 THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The place (2 Chronicles 3:1)_ 2. The dimensions (2 Chronicles 3:3) 3. The porch and holy place (2 Chronicles 3:4) 4. The most holy (2 Chron. 3:4-18) 5. The brazen pillars (2 Chronicles 3:15) First, the place is mentioned where the house of the LORD was built, “in Mount Moriah (Genesis 22), where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” The building began in t

2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS EQUIPMENT (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13). What was said in reference to the preceding section applies also to this one. The Chronicler omits all mention of Solomon's other buildings, his interest being centred on the Temple; he has, on the other hand, many additions not found in 1 Kings. 2 CHRONICLES 3:1. MOUNT MORIAH: _cf._ Genesis 22:2 *; this name for the Temple mount does not occur elsewhere in the OT....

THE MOST HOLY. the holy of holies. See note on Exodus 3:5....

The Holy of Holies 8. _the most holy house_ Called _the oracle_in 1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 6:19 etc., Hebrew _děbîr_, which means rather the _hinder part_. The Lord "dwells" in the inmost recess of the house. amounting _to six hundred talents_ This detail is not found elsewhere. But cp. 1 Chronicles 29:4....

3. BUILDING THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1) TEXT 2 Chronicles 3:1. Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah, appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2. And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3. Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was three-score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4. And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house

3:8 place, (d-10) Lit. 'holy of holies;' _ Kodesh_ . see note Exodus 25:8 ....